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Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-03-19T23:11:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. meson: Fix install-quiet after clean

  2. oauth: Run Autoconf tests with correct compiler flags

  3. Link libpq with libdl if the platform needs that.

  4. Doc: correct spelling of meson switch.

  5. oauth: Correct SSL dependency for libpq-oauth.a

  6. oauth: Fix Autoconf build on macOS

  7. oauth: Move the builtin flow into a separate module

  8. Remove a stray "pgrminclude" annotation

  9. oauth: Simplify copy of PGoauthBearerRequest

  10. oauth: Improve validator docs on interruptibility

  11. oauth: Disallow synchronous DNS in libcurl

  12. oauth: Fix postcondition for set_timer on macOS

  13. oauth: Use IPv4-only issuer in oauth_validator tests

  14. Work around OAuth/EVFILT_TIMER quirk on NetBSD.

  15. oauth: Fix incorrect const markers in struct

  16. Add missing entry to oauth_validator test .gitignore

  17. cirrus: Temporarily fix libcurl link error

  18. Add support for OAUTHBEARER SASL mechanism

  19. libpq: Handle asynchronous actions during SASL

  20. require_auth: prepare for multiple SASL mechanisms

  21. Move PG_MAX_AUTH_TOKEN_LENGTH to libpq/auth.h

  22. Make SASL max message length configurable

  23. jsonapi: fully initialize dummy lexer

  24. common/jsonapi: support libpq as a client

  25. Remove fe_memutils from libpgcommon_shlib

  26. Revert ECPG's use of pnstrdup()

  27. Explicitly require password for SCRAM exchange

  28. Refactor SASL exchange to return tri-state status

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 11:28:50AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> > > It would increase the build dependencies, assuming a package
> > > maintainer wants to enable as many features as possible, but it would
> > > *not* increase the 'package requires' footprint, merely the 'package
> > > suggests' footprint (as Debian calls it), and it's up to the user
> > > whether they install suggested extra packages, no?
> >
> > Maybe I'm confused, but what I saw was a hard dependency on libcurl,
> > as well as several of its dependencies:
> 
> > I don't think that will be satisfied by 'package suggests'.
> > Even if it somehow manages to load, the result of trying to
> > use OAuth would be a segfault rather than any useful message.
> 
> I was imagining that it would just error out if you try to use that
> stuff and it fails to open libcurl.  Then it's up to end users: if
> they want to use libpq + OAuth, they have to install both libpq5 and
> libcurl packages, and if they don't their connections will just fail,
> presumably with some error message explaining why.  Or something like
> that...

Am I understanding that curl is being used just to honor the RFC and it
is only for testing?  That seems like a small reason to add such a
dependency.

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